Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba ( ur, ) IJT is the largest student organisation in the world. It was founded by 25 students on 23 December 1947 at

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, Pakistan. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba is working in Pakistan to eliminate the non-Islamic elements and secularism from the curriculum and teachings of the educational institutions of Pakistan. It is a member of the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations and the

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. IJT was influenced mainly by the works of the late Syed Abul-Ala Maududi and Maulana

Naeem Siddiqui Maulana Naeem Siddiqui (1916 – 25 September 2002) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician. He was among the founder-members of the Jamaat-e-Islami and a close associate of Abul A'la Maududi and Amin Ahsan Islahi. Early life a ...

. It is an Islamic organization whose stated mission is to preach Islam to students of modern institutions throughout

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. From the 1970s until about the early 1990s it was also the main ideological engine powering the concept of

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on the country's university and college campuses. It attempts to promote its vision of Islamic values and glorify the image of Islam through various means. Its main fields are the modern educational institutions, i.e. colleges and universities across Pakistan, though many local sub-divisions are active at the school level, like Bazm-e-Sathi, Bazm-e-Paigham, Bazm-e-Roshni.

History

Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba was founded on 23 December 1947 in Lahore, and is one of the oldest student organizations in Pakistan. The headquarters of IJT is in the city of

. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba's ideology is not based on any language and ethnic origin. The

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of the party, with the same ideology but with a separate structure and organisation, is known as ''

Islami Jamiat-e-Talibaat Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba ( ur, ) IJT is the largest student organisation in the world. It was founded by 25 students on 23 December 1947 at Lahore, Pakistan. Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba is working in Pakistan to eliminate the non-Islamic elements an ...

''. It has a counterpart of the same ideology but with a complete, separate and independent structure and organisation, known as Jamiat Talba Arbia Pakistan. (JT Arabia works in religious institutions of Pakistan.) Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba is continuously struggling by keeping their voice up for the revival of students unions after the ban.

Motto

Islami Jamiat Talaba's purpose or motto is "To seek the pleasure of Allah Almighty by ordering human life in accordance with the principles laid down by

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and His Messenger

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(peace be upon him)." #

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(Call to Allah) - Conveying the message of

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to the students and inspiring them to acquire knowledge and to arouse in them the sense of responsibility to practice

in full. # Organization - To organize the students who are ready to partake in the struggle for establishing the Islamic way of life within the fold of this organization. # Training - To take appropriate steps to impart Islamic knowledge among the students integrated under the

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to make them men of character, capable of braving the challenges of

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and, thus, to prove the superiority of

. #

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Movement and Student-oriented Problems - To struggle for changing the existing system of education on the basis of Islamic values to build up ideal citizens and enhance

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to solve real problems of the students. # Establishing Islamic Social Order - To strive tooth-and-nail to establish Islamic social order for freeing humanity from all forms of economic exploitation, political oppression and cultural servitude.

List of chief administrators

Controversies

Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba has been continuously speaking against campus violence in the name of ethnicity. It has been allegedly linked with Islamic Brotherhood but IJT denies any link and said that, "It is a false accusation to disrupt our mission by the secular lobbies".

Notable alumni

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* Amir Cheema * Fayyaz ul Hassan Chohan *

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Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed *

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* Hafiz Salman Butt

References

External links

Official website

IJT official blog

An Islamic Video/Audio Portal :: A Project of karachi Jamiat
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